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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...results of these tests could help to answer such important question as the composition of the moon's surface, the age of the moon and its origin...
Professor Patrick Hurley of M.I.T., who will be working with radioactive isotopes in determining the age of the samples, explained that the dating process was important to the controversy surrounding the origin of the moon. The results could clarify whether the moon was a meteorite pulled into orbit by the earth's gravity or whether it was once part of the earth...
...have given my word that we will return this government to civilian rule, but I will not hand it over in chaos. I'll hand it over to a democratic government when I am sure that anyone can move about freely and that, irrespective of your ethnic origin, color or religion, you can express your opinion without being intimidated...
...record or measure it. For one thing, they lacked a suitable frame of reference in which they could clock the earth's speed through the universe as a whole. Now, a young Stanford University astronomer has made such a computation by using a phenomenon so distant in origin that it can be considered at the very outer limits of the cosmos. He calculates that along with the rest of the Milky Way galaxy, the earth is hurtling through space at 360,000 m.p.h...
Lingering Symbols. The dream totems and the enigmatic pictographs of the early canvases of Adolph Gottlieb, Pollock and Rothko also betrayed surrealist origin. As Curator Rubin observes, the moody, poetic, apocalyptic spirit that broods over explicitly surrealistic pictures lingers in the later, totally abstract canvases of these same artists. To emphasize this point, Rothko's Magenta, Black, Green on Orange is placed in a small, partially darkened, melancholy chapel-like gallery, while the spiky Gothic tracery of Clyfford Still's painting, 1947-J shares a gallery with four other Stills-and a spiky Gothic metal sculpture by Theodore...